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Posted 3 years ago on September 3 2008
When we read that kind of writing in government regulations, we call it bureaucratese; when we read it in legal documents, legalese; in academic writing that inflates small ideas into gassy abstractions, academese. [Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace by Joseph Williams]
Teehee, gassy abstractions! And “academese” sounds like a sneeze.
